Paleoclimate
Paleoclimate
Paleoclimate studies provide an essential perspective for assessing the potential impacts of future climate on natural systems and the people who rely on them. GECSC scientists interpret geologic evidence of past climate changes over broad temporal and spatial scales and provide the information needed to understand the rates and patterns of Earth system response to a range of climate and landscape changes. Integration of these data with climate modeling efforts provides a means to improve understanding of the impacts of change and feedbacks between the Earth and climate systems, as well as improve model performance and prediction capabilities.
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Terrestrial Rates and Amplitudes of Changes in Ecoclimate Systems (TRACES)
Vegetation changes caused by climatic variations and/or land use may have large impacts on forests, agriculture, rangelands, natural ecosystems, and endangered species. Climate modeling studies indicate that vegetation cover, in turn, has a strong influence on regional climates, and this must be better understood before models can estimate future environmental conditions. To address these issues...
Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change: Fire, climate and humans
Large wildfires have raged across the western Americas in the past decade including the Las Conchas, New Mexico fire that burned 44,000 acres in a single day in 2011 (Orem and Pelletier, 2015, Geomorphology 232: 224-238, and references therein), the 2016 Fort McMurray, Alberta fire that required evacuating an entire city, and the 2015 Alaskan fire season that burned more than 5 million acres...